CNH-Industrial – System model backbone for forage harvesters – Power flow analysis

A forage harvester is an agricultural machine that harvests crops like grass, corn and others. The harvester is taking in the crop material through a header and feeder and chopps the crop biological material to meet certain requirements and expels it into a trailer. These machines are quite complex, and a multitude of processes are occurring simultaneously.

Due to increasing computational power and improving technologies, modern design techniques are gradually more and more relying on simulations. Not only can the number of physical tests be reduced, often they provide insights that are very difficult or very expensive to obtain through classical methodologies.

One of the challenges in the current setting is to use simulation models of a given subsystem in the overall setup. Because of this, subsystems can be designed optimally, while we risk the whole system is suboptimal.

CNHIndustrial in Zedelgem is developing and manufacturing Combine Harvesters, Forage Harvesters and Large Square Balers. Within CNHI, Zedelgem is recognized as a center of excellence for product design.